(1) CIMM
UPDATE: In an Oct. 06, 2005
news release, Andrew Telegdi announced that CIMM Report 12 titled
“Updating
Canada's Citizenship Laws: It's Time” was tabled in Parliament. It
makes a
number of recommendations for inclusion into the new Citizenship of
Canada Act
and complements Report 10, which strongly urged the government to move
to an
exclusively judicial process for citizenship revocation. Mr. Telegdi
was
re-elected as Chair of Standing Committee on Citizenship and
Immigration (CIMM)
on Oct. 18, 2005.

(2) D&D issue: At the Pre-Trial
Conference on 18Oct2005 in Toronto for the cases of Josef Furman and
Jura
Skomatchuk, it was decided that the parties will tender their Agreed
Statement
of Facts and Joint Book of Documents for trial 75 days prior to the
trial date.
Relevant evidence from T-440-04 (Skomatchuk) will be subsequently
applied to
T-560-04 (Furman). Trial date and location (either St. Catharines or
Ottawa) is
still to be set.

It is
incomprehensible that, despite the
strong stand taken by CIMM, the Canadian courts and the general public
against
the present d&d process which fraudulently equates immigration
infractions
with war criminality, the Canadian government insists on using it to
revoke the
citizenship of octogenarians. Let us hope that the Ukrainian community
is
prepared for these forthcoming show trials.